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Land and Lordship : Structures of Governance in Medieval Austria /
Otto Brunner contends that prevailing notions of medieval social and constitutional history had been shaped by the nineteenth-century nation state and its "liberal" order. Whereas a sharp distinction between the public and the private might be appropriate to descriptions of contemporary so...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés Alemán |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
1992.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | Otto Brunner contends that prevailing notions of medieval social and constitutional history had been shaped by the nineteenth-century nation state and its "liberal" order. Whereas a sharp distinction between the public and the private might be appropriate to descriptions of contemporary society, such a dichotomy could not be projected back onto the Middle Ages. Focusing particularly on forms of lordship in late medieval Austria, Brunner found neither a "state" in the modern sense nor any distinction between the public and private spheres.Behind the apparent disorder of late medieval political life, however, Brunner discovered a coherent legal and constitutional order rooted in the the rights and obligations of noble lordship. In carefully reconstructing this order, Brunner's study weaves together social, legal, constitutional, and intellectual history. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (498 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781512801064 |